10th April: Animation has started!

The animation for the shots has now started! I'm pretty happy with what I've done so far, and I picked an easy-ish shot to animate to begin with to ensure I could properly understand the rig that Clym has made, which so far seems to be mostly flawless so good job Clym! It's superbly brilliant.

The shot I animated was a simple walk up to the egg, which I've attached below! On the shotlist it's shot number 7! It looks a bit odd with the tree having not been imported yet, that and the slight camera movement which makes them look to be floating across the ground a bit, but I can assure you they're not!



It's good to get this show on the road!

Baby Bird and Egg poses!

Here are some quick poses I sketched out to prepare myself for getting the rig in the next few days! I must say I'm excited.

The colour script

Here's a basic colour script of the film!

It's nothing too major but it gives me the chance to see how the colours mesh together.



I will most likely change the tones up a bit before the final release of the film, especially as I'm slightly concerned as to how the two chicks will look against the sky in the background.

I'll either have a different time of day to reflect a colour difference OR I'll ensure the chicks do not clash with the sky by making either them or the sky lighter.

Logo rebranding

I've changed the logo a bit with the latest logo being in the bottom right hand corner!



It's nothing too major of a change but I'd thought I'd let the world know!

Clym's changes to the model

I must say it looks superb what he's created! A few bits have changed since the model sheet I created, but overall he's far exceeded how I imagined it would look. He'll soon start rigging which should be good!



Good job Clym!

Term 2 reflection

Term 2 has been an incredibly hard and long process.

The film was in many ways put on the back burner like it is for all students this time of the year and there is a reason for it! That reason being the dissertation. The dissertation takes an absolutely HUGE chunk of your time.

We had a presentation the other day which went well, with both Dave Bull and Mike Smith liking how the film is shaping up. It's incredibly encouraging knowing that the tutors like how the film is progressing and I'm really aiming to get the best quality work out of this!

We're still sadly waiting on the model and rig but from what I've seen from Clym it is very slowly getting there. He's working on a few other projects before he works on mine which will mean I won't get the rigs until the start of the third term which may halt things a bit more than I would have liked to. I'm only concerned because I don't want to have to rush the animation at all otherwise we won't be able to hit the target of getting the film done for the degree show!

Model so far

I've been working with Clym closely and here's what's been created so far! Kofi is no longer working on the chick since I wanted to give him time to work on his film but we've been working on the foundations that Kofi set up with the model. I firstly edited the model to a basic extent and then sent to Clym to finetune. We've been going back and forth and got to this stage! I quickly Photoshopped the character to look like he was rendered and so far so good!